Graeme Millen

Managing Director, Climate Tech & Sustainability (Canada)

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Graeme Millen

Silicon Valley Bank

Managing Director, Climate Tech & Sustainability (Canada)

As the Canadian lead for the bank’s climate technology and sustainability efforts, Graeme leverages his extensive experience and ecosystem relationships to support companies that are designing innovative solutions in energy, new transportation, agriculture, food, and industrial sectors.

Graeme thrives on connecting and assisting these dynamic, high-growth companies — “the most interesting, game-changing organizations on the planet” — using nimble, inventive capital to create a launch pad for their success.

A Chartered Professional Accountant and Certified Management Accountant, Graeme has more than a decade of experience in renewable energy and project finance. His background includes time as an analyst, investor, developer and operator of clean energy projects across North America. In Nairobi, Kenya, he created fundraising strategies for a social venture that develops user- and environmentally friendly cook stoves.